On April 22, 1974, three people were murdered and two others were tortured in the Hi-Fi electronics shop on Washington Boulevard. The sheriff at the time described the crime as the “worst mass murder” he had ever heard of in the northern Utah town.
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By Cody Copeland/Feb. 10, 2021 10:51 am EDT/Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 10:52 am EDT
On April 22, 1974, a brutal attack that resulted in the murders of three people and caused permanent damage to two others who were tortured changed the town of Ogden, Utah, forever. They occurred at the Hi-Fi Shop, a local electronics store, when at least two men entered, attacked the people inside, and proceeded to torture them before killing three of them. Dubbed the Hi-Fi Murders, the grisly killings rocked the state and the nation, and the sentencing of those responsible would go on to be controversial, prompting accusations of racial bias in the Utah justice system.